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Apple is hosting a special live event from San Francisco today starting a 1pm EST. The company has long been rumored to unwrap its brand new version 2 of the iPad which is widely believed to include not one but 2 cameras, a slimmer build, and could possibly be available in both white and black.

The other opportunity for Apple to make big news today will be whether or not Steve Jobs makes an appearance at the event. Jobs has been fighting pancreatic cancer since 2004 and most recently has been on leave from Apple due to a deteriorating health condition. This latest situation has prompted Apple to put a succession plan in place in case Jobs does not make it back to Apple. An appearance today by Jobs could send Apple’s stock skyrocketing and so Apple followers and fans wait with guarded optimism.

If you would like to following the event live you can do so at one of the following blogs…

The AppleTV 2 is so small it fits in the palm of your hand but it packs quite a punch on the big screen. I have 2 now. I liked the one I bought for my office so much that I acquired another at a Christmas party this past holiday season. And by acquire I mean stole. You see, the party I went to is set up that every couple brings a $100 gift and everyone gets a number. As your number comes up you can either pick a gift off the pile or steal one that has already been given. And since that’s how I role, I now own two Apple TV 2. Haha.

Anyways. Here is the deal.. The Apple TV 2 will allow you to stream media from your iTunes account via wifi or ethernet cable on any computer to your TV. Plain and simple. But there is more. The Apple TV 2 also have built in NetFlix, YouTube, MobileMe, or Flickr. It’s actually quite impressive and I use it just about everyday.

If you subscribe to video blogs or are a NetFlix addict like myself then this is a product for you. The quality is great and it is incredibly easy to setup and navigate. You can also rent or download movies from your iTunes account and play them in HD on your big screen TV and be perfectly satisfied with your purchase.

The Remote is sleek, small and pretty easy to use. I have slipped up a few times doing a text search but I have been getting the hang of it. It’s the same remote that Apple shipped to control Front Row on the mac. The Apple TV reminds me a lot of the old Front Row interface but much improved.

The Remote is very small but pretty easy to use...

The unboxing and setup take virtually no time at all. Simply open it, Connect Power, Ethernet, and HDMI and you are ready to go. If you do not have Ethernet then you can configure it to use your wireless connection if available in your house. You must have a wired or wireless network in your home to use Apple TV2.

Ports on the back of Apple TV 2

The left most port is the power connector, next to it moving right is the HDMI connector, beneath the HDMI connector is a Micro USB connector for restoring your Apple TV 2 in case you screw it up trying to jailbreak it, the next port is an optical audio connector and finally the right most port is an ethernet connector.

The same Micro USB port can be used to jailbreak the Apple TV 2 but you need a special Micro USB cable that can be found on eBay. It looks exactly like this…

Micro USB Cable

Articles on jailbreaking the AppleTV2 can be found all over the web. It’s just not the purpose of this blog so please google jailbreaking the Apple TV 2 for more info on that process. That said you can add more functionality to the Apple TV 2 such as installing the XBMC Media Center to allow you access to all different types of video formats and content.

When all is said and done I highly recommend the Apple TV 2 to my friends, family and colleagues. It is a great piece of engineering and for $100 how can you go wrong?

Have you ever googled yourself? What did you find? Try googling your address, your phone number, your email addresses. Find anything? More often than not you did find something and it is probably something that alarmed you.

Gone are the days of being anonymous. All you had to do in the past is refuse to list your phone number in the phonebook and you were pretty safe. Nowadays though, every part of your life is being recorded and there is no one to blame but yourself.

Social networks like facebook, myspace, linkedin, flickr, twitter, blogger and many more are making it increasingly difficult to prevent the distribution of your life. Everything you type on these sites is being harvested. Google saves all this data and they use it to sell you things and if you think the others aren’t catching on you are wrong.

Do a google on web mining and social networking and see what you get. It’s a cottage industry and it’s exploding. Hundreds of articles, techniques and “opportunities” abound. Can you imagine? What are your kids going to school for now? I think by the year 2020 or 2025 the latest every single job will be social network or ad revenue based. The revolution has begun.

Unless of course you are trying to get away from all of that. And people are. It’s called getting off the grid. Returning to normalcy and real life. This isn’t just removing yourself from social networks its removing yourself from society the way it has evolved. It’s about getting off the power grid as much as going anonymous on the internet.

Anonymity is pretty big today with many thanks to the collective efforts of the group known as “Anonymous.” For those of you who have been living under a rock, Anonymous has been waging wars on all those who oppose WikiLeaks. Collective in that it has no head, no individual running the show, just a group of like-minded people who their PCs (through proxies of course) to carryout massive DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks against the enemies of WikiLeaks.

Personal anonymity on the web starts with a proxy. And for those who are unfamiliar with this term should think of it as an internet switching station, your computer connects to the web through your provider but every request you make goes out through that switching station where it is assigned a different IP footprint. So if it is traced back it only goes as far as the proxy.

Everyone on the web has their own IP address so masquerading or spoofing your IP as a different number by way of a proxy is the first step in claiming your anonymity. If you are looking for a secure proxy, try googling anonymous web proxy. Surely that will come up with something.

The second in a long list of techniques for going anonymous is secure email. Actually its really securing everything you do. Encryption goes a long way in protecting your data whether it be email, text chat, video chat, or through a web phone vendor such as Skype, Ooma, Vonage, etc. Securing your internet connection starts with your router, if you are using wireless make sure you lock it down with nothing less than WPA2 encryption. Everything else short of WPA2 can be cracked rather quickly. This is no good. If your router only supports WEP, then its time for a new router. You have been warned. For those of you without any encryption at all on your router please email your coordinates in case I need an internet connection and I am in your area. Next, secure your computer. I will be honest, I use a make and I lock it down manually, but on my Windows boxes I use Kaspersky and/or NOD32 as well as some custom monitoring apps for port management. Make sure you have a solution. I do not use symantec because I find it very invasive, but that is just me. As far as securing your email look into private anonymous email accounts from HushMail.com or PrivacyHarbor.com.

Third, lock down your social nets. Get off the ones you do not use. Remove all information from them first including your education info, your personal life, your photos, your music, your friends, your jobs, your kids, your phone numbers, etc etc and when all of that info is gone try to change your username and personal info so it is no longer relating to you. Open a dummy email account with one of the privacy based email providers I mentioned above and change your account email to the this one. Once that is all complete abandon it. Do not delete it. Just abandon it. Do this for all the networks you do not want to be on or use. Chances are your old data will still show up in searches but over time your current (abandoned) profile will write over that search data and you will become more anonymous.

Like I stated earlier though. If you are on the web and/or connected to a power grid you can never really be totally off the grid. You probably pay bills on line, you may have EZ-Pass, credit cards in your name, and if you do, you can be tracked, watched and have your identity stolen.

Since this topic is always evolving and new techniques are discovered everyday I will revisit this topic over the coming months to help you become, just a little more anonymous than you were.

Thank you for your interest and your recent resume submission. My name is Lindsay Slayton and
I am the Human Resource Manager that is in charge of the hiring process for our company
VSD Property Management. I’ve look over your application and due to the high amount of
replies that we’ve gotten regarding our recent classifieds posting, I wanted to contact
you as soon as possible and see if you would be interested in setting up an interview with us.

Before I continue let me tell you some background information about VSD Property Management:
We are an established Rental Company that was founded back in 1984 and we’ve grown immensely
since then. Unlike other rental companies, we hope to foster a fun yet efficient environment
for our employees since we have the firm belief that if we provide our employees with a
welcoming work atmosphere we will see an increased return in productivity. Candidates should
consider themselves self-starters and be able to work efficiently with minimum supervision. Other
skills like great interaction with employees of all levels of the firm, strong communication
skills, organization skills etc. are also valued very highly.

Our company aims to build a strong bond with its employees and therefore we offer benefits
packages for you and your family plus we thrive to pay our employees a higher hourly wage than
any of our competitors. We will be discussing compensation and benefits a little bit more in
detail during our interview when we are in a more private environment instead of public emails.

Now due to our policies I will not be able to schedule an interview with you until you have
filled out one of our online applications which can be found on our company website.
Please visit http://vsdmanagement.com/application/ and fill out our short application so we can move on
with the interview process. Each applicant is required to have a personal application code
in order to fill the application.

Your code is: 6MJ5QZgN6X0

Since we have received such a high number of replies to our job posting I will only be able to
hold your application on my desk for 1-2 days more so please do not wait too long to fill out
our online application! I will contact you as soon as I receive your online application!

Now if you have any questions please feel free to contact me!
Hoping to see you here for an interview soon,

So let’s look at this shall we. First things first. The FROM says the message is from Lindsay Slayton but the actual email address says huqazefezaz95@hotmail.com. So there are a couple of no-nos here. First off the name of the person and the actual email address do not match. Now this is common if you are emailing with friends but not in a professional environment. What company would have an HR person respond to a job submission via a Hotmail account. Unlikely at best.

Next, the first line says that I submitted a resume. Haha. I didn’t but for those of you who did, be careful. Any private information in that resume is now being harvested and used against you. Hello identity fraud.

Thirdly, she says she works for VSD Property Management which does not meet the description of the original job posting.

Lastly, she (probably not a she by the way) tells you in order to set up an interview you have to fill out a questionnaire online which undoubtedly asks a number of personal questions including your Social Security number.

Oh… One more thing. I did a whois on the domain name mentioned in the ad and it comes back as being registered to the following individual…

Vsemil Sobolev (VsemilSobolev@pochta.ru)

+1.1231106541

Fax:

Lenin ave 32/87

Moscow, 60539

RU

So this guy is in Russia trying to harvest US data. BE CAREFUL OUT THERE… And please pass this on.

About a month and a half ago I went to a really great Christmas party at a friend’s house and a debate broke out. It’s an annual get together with various foods, plenty of wine and great tech talk. It was an interesting and eclectic group of party-goers 30 and 40 somethings who work throughout the computer industry in one way or another: a java developer, two gaming convention entrepreneurs, an IT sales executive and me.

Anyhow, the conversation got started with an oh so subtle comment or dig if you will on how great the android platform is. Now, everyone knows I am a Mac/Apple Evangelist, how could I let such a fat meatball of a pitch pass me up without a retort? That just wouldn’t be me. I seriously started laughing, dug in and went on the offensive. Now let me be clear in saying, I have no allegiance towards Apple as a company, God knows they have given me fits with the way they treat resellers and mac consultants but, that said, I am a lover of their products. The fact is Apple’s iPhone is not only superior to everything available but it is only getting better. The basis of the argument was Android’s integration with Google’s cloud platform which for some reason has them completely convinced Android is the way to go.

The truth is Google Cloud as a platform is such a bad idea for people it isn’t funny. It is everything that the computer industry SHOULDN’T be about. Google makes money off data. Your data. It collects your data in various ways and then uses your data to make money for itself. Search is a big one. Whatever you type in your browser shuffles off to a storage disk somewhere, maybe India, maybe China, probably Russia and most certainly here in the US all picked apart into various shapes, forms, sizes and representations. I say that because it is replicated, sorted and put to work in a number of different ways, IMMEDIATELY all without your knowledge and all in a completely new form unrecognizable to the original form (see how they get around saying your privacy is secure?)

Now you may say to yourself, ok, what’s the big deal with that? They find me what I am looking for. And they give me options. Not so fast. You are being labeled, watched, and exploited in a seriously evil manner and you don’t even realize it. And I am only talking SEARCH here. Your searches are completely recorded they are pinned to your IP and if that changes more than likely they are pinning it to a machine ID. And if you are using chrome, forget about it, you are completely being watched and recorded. They can see what apps you are running, what sites you navigate to, whether you go to Democrat or Republican based web-sites, everything! And don’t think for a moment they do not use that. Of course they do. Open up gmail and see what ads pop up. They are branding you and marketing to you all the time.

Let’s move over to the cloud shall we. Can anyone tell me why the cloud, google’s in particular here since I am picking on them, might be a bad idea? An awful idea? It’s the data dummy. That data you put in your own private (hahahaha) google cloud is being torn apart split into keywords and shipped off to millions of different computers where it is put back together (not in its original form, and this is why its legal) and being reused, redistributed and get this, even SOLD. That’s right. Your proposals to your customers, your pitches, your business plans, your proprietary processes, procedures and methods all torn apart, reassembled in pieces and reissued. You are providing a behemoth of a company with their number 1 resource. Data. Your private data becomes their freely available data. And since it is no longer in its original form, ie, your email, your document in one of their cloud apps, etc you have no say where that data is used. Yikes!

Someone please tell me they find this a little bit insane. Well, its ok. People are watching, understanding and revolting. Privacy is a big deal. Unfortunately, unless you are getting hurt you might not care to notice but you will, eventually. It’s a scary thing but people are losing their identities and oogles (like that?) of their personal information every single day. It is so destructive and out of control there is only 1 known way to combat it. Get off the grid.

In any event, here is my proclamation, and I am not claiming to be the next great prophet but hear me out on this. Google is dying. As much as they try to reinvent themselves, they’re still dying. WHAT???? Did he just say that? Yes. Their is a movement afoot and its in the title of this blog. Anonymity. Say it. Anonymity. It will be the only way you can repair your life, your credit, and your relationships. Believe you me, Google is doing you no favors. Their bread is buttered by your personal data. Without it, they can not survive.

In the coming days I am going to try to help you figure out how to get off the grid and some interesting tricks you can use to protect your identities online.

I was standing in line the other day at Best Buy when I noticed a friend of mine picking up an Apple iPad for a loved one. I couldn’t help but interrupt his purchase when the sales person told him that he should get the extended service plan.

I know a lot of people who are buying iPads and I want to give them a little info before they buy. First off, there are 2 versions of the iPad – a) Wifi-Only and b) Wifi and 3G. The 3G is AT&Ts wireless network that you will wind up paying something like $45 a month for and isn’t unlimited anymore.

My recommendation.. If you are using your iPad at home, don’t get the 3G enabled version. If you are using it on the road then get the 3G capable model and only turn the 3G on when you absolutely need it.

Oh, a word about warranties.. Don’t buy Apple’s or BestBuy’s or anyone else’s. Buy an insurance plan from Squaretrade.com. They are cheap and they cover everything.